Routledge Hindu Studies Series
About the Book Series
This series, in association with the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies, intends primarily the publication of constructive Hindu theological, philosophical and ethical projects aimed at bringing Hindu traditions into dialogue with contemporary trends in scholarship and contemporary society. The series invites original, high quality, research level work on religion, culture and society of Hindus living in India and abroad. Proposals for annotated translations of important primary sources and studies in the history of the Hindu religious traditions will also be considered.
Nyāya Sūtra – on Philosophical Method: Sanskrit Text, Translation, and Commentary
1st Edition
By Victor A. van Bijlert
November 28, 2025
Nyāya Sūtra offers a new English translation of the text ascribed to Akṣapāda, an Indian philosopher who lived around the beginning of the Common Era. The translation is accompanied by the original Sanskrit text and an original commentary. The commentary explains every sūtra separately and ...
Vaiṣṇava Concepts of God: Philosophical Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Ricardo Sousa Silvestre, Alan Constantine Herbert, Benedikt Paul Göcke
May 06, 2025
This book explores a number of concepts of God in Vaiṣṇavism, which is commonly referred to as one of the great Hindu monotheistic traditions. By addressing the question of what attributes God possesses according to particular Vaiṣṇava textual sources and traditions, the book locates these concepts...
Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India: Sri Ramana Maharshi, Sri Aurobindo, the Hari-Hara Mystery, and the Hindu-Christian Encounter
1st Edition
By Isaac Portilla
January 31, 2025
Interfaith Dialogue and Mystical Consciousness in India is a research inquiry in interfaith studies that uses hermeneutical phenomenology to address vexing issues arising in the study of mysticism and enlightened sages. This book raises the following questions: If all human beings have access to ...
The Concept of Mind in Hindu Tantra
1st Edition
By Gavin Flood
November 18, 2024
This book presents an account of the concept of mind in Hindu Tantra through a study of religious and philosophical texts in the medieval period. Offering an understanding on how the mind is conceptualized both as that which keeps a person bound to the cycle of reincarnation and as having ...
The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Raveh, Elise Coquereau-Saouma
August 26, 2024
This book engages in a dialogue with Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya (K.C. Bhattacharyya, KCB, 1875–1949) and opens a vista to contemporary Indian philosophy. KCB is one of the founding fathers of contemporary Indian philosophy, a distinct genre of philosophy that draws both on classical Indian ...
Goddess Traditions in India: Theological Poems and Philosophical Tales in the Tripurārahasya
1st Edition
By Silvia Schwarz Linder
January 29, 2024
This book on the Tripurārahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Śākta literature, is a study of the Śrīvidyā and Śākta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ages. Associated with the religious tradition known as Śrīvidyā...
Hindu–Christian Dual Belonging
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel J. Soars, Nadya Pohran
January 29, 2024
This book focuses on dual belonging within Hindu-Christian contexts. Written by experts in a variety of fields, the chapters explore the theological, philosophical, and cultural anthropological debates relating to religious pluralism, religious language, and social identity while addressing the ...
Indian Perspectives on Consciousness, Language and Self: The School of Recognition on Linguistics and Philosophy of Mind
1st Edition
By Marco Ferrante
September 25, 2023
This book examines the theory of consciousness developed by the school of Recognition, an Indian philosophical tradition that thrived around the tenth c. CE in Kashmir, and argues that consciousness has a linguistic nature. It situates the doctrines of the tradition within the broader Indian ...
Politics and Religion in Eighteenth-Century India: Jaisingh II and the Rise of Public Theology in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism
1st Edition
By Sachi Patel
September 25, 2023
This book explores the contribution of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava theology to polity and public engagement during the reign of Jaisingh II in the early eighteenth century in North India. The book analyses specialised treatises produced by the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas which provide theological foundations to endorse...
Vaiśeṣikasūtra – A Translation
1st Edition
By Ionut Moise, Ganesh U. Thite
January 09, 2023
This book introduces readers to Indian philosophy by presenting the first integral English translation of Vaiśeṣikasūtra as preserved by the earliest canonical commentary of Candrānanda (7th century AD) on the old aphorisms of the Vaiśeṣika school of Indian philosophy. The present monograph offers ...
The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth: Power, Preservation and Mirrored Māhātmyas in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa
1st Edition
By Raj Balkaran
August 29, 2022
In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, and those glorifying the Sun, Surya, found in the Marka¿¿eya Pura¿a, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Marka¿¿eya Pura¿a privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (...
Salvation in Indian Philosophy: Perfection and Simplicity for Vaiśeṣika
1st Edition
By Ionut Moise
June 30, 2021
This book offers a comprehensive description of the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa/ mokṣa) and Vaiśeṣika, one of the oldest philosophical systems of Indian philosophy and provides an overview of theories in other related Indian philosophical systems and classical doctrines of salvation.The ...